The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…

A temperate man seldom sinneth, because the flesh which doth tempt is mortified, least it should tempt: but when the handmaid is above the mistress, and a man hath lost the Image of God and scarce retaineth the image of man, all his thoughts and speeches, and actions must needs be sin, and nothing but sin, because sobriety the bond of virtue is broken; which kept all together. When didst thou want discretion to consider? ⟨p. 591⟩When didst thou want patience to forgive? When didst thou want continency to refrain? When didst thou want hart to pray, but when sobriety is fled away, and intemperance filled her room? If shame let to sin, it casteth out sin: if fear let to sin, it casteth out fear: if love let to sin, it expulseth love: if knowledge let to sin, it expulseth knowledge: like a covetous Land-lord, which would have all to himself and dwell alone.

A temperate man seldome sinneth, because the flesh which dooth tempt is mortified, least it should tempt: but when the handmaid is aboue the mistres, and a man hath lost the Image of God and scarce retayneth the image of man, all his thoughts and speeches, and actions must needs be sinne, and nothing but sinne, because sobrietie the bond of vertue is broken; which kept all together. When didst thou want discretion to consider? ⟨p. 591⟩When didst thou want patience to forgiue? When didst thou wāt cōtinencie to refraine? When didst thou want hart to pray, but when sobrietie is fled away, and intemperancie filled her roome? If shame let to sinne, it casteth out sinne: if feare let to sinne, it casteth out feare: if loue let to sinne, it expulseth loue: if knowledge let to sinne, it expulseth knowledge: like a couetous Land-lord, which would haue all to himselfe and dwell alone.

There is no sin but hath some show of virtue, only the sin of drunkenness is like nothing but sin: there is no sin, but although it hurt the soul, it beautifieth the body, or promiseth profit, or pleasure, or glory, or something to his servants, only drunkenness is so impudent, that it descrieth it self: so unthankful that it maketh no recompense: so noisome, that it consumeth the body, which many sins spare, least they should appear to be sins. Every sin defileth a man, but drunkenness makes him like a beast: every sin defaceth a man, but drunkenness taketh away the image of a man: every sin robbeth a man of some virtue, but drunkenness stealeth away all virtues at once: every sin deserveth punishment, but drunkenness upbraids a man while the wine […] in his stomach; and though he would